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crusty-chronicles · 18 days

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As requested, I present to you ✨

Hiei Bringing His Airheaded S/O To Demon World

Absolute chaos

The entire time he regrets bringing you there.

He only did so because he was tired of you crying everytime he left. Even though he always came back to you no matter what, idiot.

Truthfully, he prefers you staying in the living world because there's less things that could kill you.

No bloodthirsty demons salivating at the scent of you. No carnivorous plants waiting for you to aimlessly stumble into. And no threats of kidnapping and being used for ransom.

It's not like you can't take care of yourself, but the chances of a someone or something taking advantage of your naivety are high

Which is why he specifically tells you to stay close to him.

“If you get lost here, I won't try to find you.” It was a small warning that he'd never really follow through with. But he needed you to take this seriously.

“But you found me when I got lost on my way home that one time.”

“I mean it this time.”

He has to keep a constant eye on you at all times.

Even going as far as holding your hand to keep you in place.

Which is very humiliating for him. The three eyed demon not used to openly showing his affections.

His first stop is Mukuro's base. To which you responded ‘Why is it moving??? I think I'm gonna get motion sickness.’

Because of his constant supervision, he isn't really able to do his job.

And so it begins.

He needs his Jagan, so it's either you or the other poor humans who stumbled past the makai barrier.

Guess who he chooses most of the time.

The few times he does leave you, he makes sure you're occupied with something.

“Go spar with those new recruits over there while I'm gone.”

“Okay!”

Bless those poor demons. They never stood a chance.

Hiei warned Mukuro beforehand about you.

How you're decently strong but don't have a single thought in your head.

She didn't believe him at first. At least, not until she met you in person.

How you managed to bust a hole in the wall by tripping, she'd never know. She saw it happen, but she still doesn't understand how it's possible.

Hiei introduces you to her and immediately regrets it.

“You’re a liar! You said you didn't have any friends.” You pointed out, causing the three eyed demon to tense up.

“I don't. Mukuro's an ally.”

“We both know it's the same for you.”

He's actually mad you're smart enough to figure that out but not why you shouldn't eat glass.

He's pretty embarrassed about your relationship. Not because he's ashamed of you. Couldn't be any further than the truth. He relishes in the fact you're so strong, paired along with your heart that has more kindness than he's able to fathom.

No, Hiei is embarrassed because here he's respected. His reputation is infamous and he's regarded highly. Known to be cruel yet reasonable.

But here he is telling you not to wonder off like some worried parent.

Here he is inspecting the smallest of cuts on your finger and healing it.

It's just so embarrassing for him to be soft in front of others who aren't you.

“So this is the one that has you returning to the human world.” Mukuro teased.

But Hiei wouldn't take the bait.

“I don't know what you're talking about.

Only for you to come up to him with a small gem. Presenting it proudly to him.

“Hiei! Look what I found! Isn't it pretty?”

It's a ruby. Something you'd told him reminds you of his eyes. It makes a tinge of red appear on his face.

But Hiei's a stubborn demon.

“And what do you expect me to do with it?” A tone that would sound cruel to anyone but you.

“Maybe I could turn it into a necklace like the one you gave me.”

“That's a ridiculous idea.”

It was inevitable something would happen to you on this trip. A lot of demons were still bitter about the outcome of the tournament. And with Hiei's involvement with the reform, you were only a huge target.

He ends up wearing it for the rest of the trip. Guarding it with his life. Much to the amusement of the Mukuro and her henchmen.

He came back to the base expecting to see you waiting, but you weren't there.

He didn't waste a second using his Jagan to find you.

He fully prepared to end the life of whatever demon decided to mess with his mate, but when he found you, you'd already taken care of it.

Save for a few scratches on your arm, you were completely fine.

It led to Hiei scolding you for walking off with someone you didn't know. Promising this would be the last time you ever came here for acting so reckless, and that you weren't to leave his side for the rest of the time you were here.

It proved that he was right with you staying in the living world. It was safer for you. And he had Kurama to take care of you if anything happened. You were completely alone here.

“How come you didn't want me to come here?” You asked while he went over your injuries once more.

His answer came immediately.

“Because I knew you wouldn't be able to stay out of trouble.”

“Hey, it's not my fault that guy wanted to fight. How was I supposed to know he wasn't a part of Mukuro’s army?”

He glared up at you.

“You're an idiot.” Then his gaze softened. A look reserved only for you.

“…But you're my idiot, therefore my responsibility. I can't have you getting hurt on my watch.”

What kind of mate would he be if he couldn't even take care of you in his element?

You sat in silence for a while, and he briefly wondered if he went too far. You usually never took his harsh words to heart. He was relieved when he heard you speak again.

“You seem to really like it here. I wouldn't blame you if you decided to stayed after all one of these days.”

You still thought he would just abandon you? Truly your naivety infuriated him.

“In case I haven't made my intentions clear before, I come back for you and you only. Yet you still doubt my devotion. If you expect me to stay in the living world forever with you, you shouldn't.” But I'll always come back for you. Words he'd said over and over again.

An idea struck you then.

“We could stay here if you want. Get all old together. Maybe start a family.”

He couldn't stop the heat crawling onto his face. The way the red seemed to glow from his flustered state. He had to look away from you and move back.

“As if. I have no intentions to keep you here, nor procreate with someone who can't even tie their shoe.”

He heard you laugh and the red only worsened from there.

He didn't like the effect your words had on him.

Tempting him with something so sweet. Something that would inevitably give him even more of a weak spot.

But you weren't meant for this world. Your home was on the other side of this barrier. And his was with you.

For now this arrangement of being with you periodically would work.

#hiei yu yu hakusho #yu yu hakusho #hiei jaganshi #hiei x reader #yyh hiei #yyh x reader #airhead s/o #stronk s/o #x reader

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comicaurora · 4 months

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Hi Red! I was curious if you've watched the new Yu Yu Hakusho live action, and if so, what your thoughts were on its pacing and handling of various plots. Personally I thought it did some very clever things and it genuinely pleasantly surprised me at a couple points, but at the same time the fact that it's only 5 episodes hurt its ability to do the story justice a bit.

Also I was rewatching the Dark Tournament arc of the anime today and wondering what it must've been like to watch when it originally aired, considering all the multi episode fights. Do you remember any of your thoughts at the time?

On an unrelated note, I'm really excited for arc 2 of Aurora!!!! Also sorry this is so ramble-y

I have watched it! For the most part, I really enjoyed it, although in pursuit of compressing everything down to five episodes it did a couple things I think definitely harmed the overall impact and characterization.

Spoilers below!

The first episode is I think nearly pitch-perfect. The visual design on the Spirit World is top-tier, and the choice to make everything that was a sacred artifact move like ferrofluid was a very clever bit of visual design. It's absolutely weird and original and I think it was a very fun way to spice up Fluffy Cloud Heaven.

Of all the things they sped through, I'm very glad they did not speed through the crucial characterization of Yusuke initially choosing to stay dead on the assumption that everyone is better off without him, and the show subsequently taking its time to show the wake, let Yusuke's mom and Keiko really feel their feelings, etcetera. The adaptation of the wake was, to my memory, almost 100% true to the anime version, including the gut-wrenching moments like Kuwabara starting off angry and then breaking down, and the toddler Yusuke saved not really understanding that he's dead. And I had no complaints about the parts of this arc that they did speed up - a lot of the timeline of the original show is training arcs and Yusuke having to prove himself, and I had almost no problem with them skipping over that. Yusuke not having to do any tasks before coming back to life is A-OK with me.

I also entirely lost my shit at The Dropkick.

And then the last bit of episode 1, where they have to deal with the possessed kid, was absolutely top tier. The way they make demonic possession look and feel in this show is truly horrific, and I loved the way they played it like a one-man zombie apocalypse. The fight choreography was also very impressive and I liked how much they used the environment. Also, letting Kuwabara fight this guy first was a very good way of making the power-scaling clear and establishing that Kuwabara is a fundamentally very decent person willing to punch above his weight class to try and help.

However, this episode did get me excited for something they ended up not doing, which was a bummer. The first thing we see in the show is a Makai insect, which in the anime are the tools of the villains in the Four Saint Beasts arc - at the climax of that storyline, Makai-insect-possessed students and faculty corner Keiko and Botan in the human world while Yusuke fights an increasingly desperate battle against Suzaku to try and stop him. If the full-on body horror zombie thing was what makai insect possession looked like, that scenario immediately seemed like it was going to be butt-clenchingly terrifying.

Of course, they ended up entirely sidestepping the Saint Beasts arc, which is understandable - narratively speaking its only real function is to let the four protagonists team-build after their contentious first meetings. It became clear pretty quickly that with the time they had, it wouldn't be worth it to go there. That said, I think they really could've used a little more team-building time - more on that later.

The first episode also pretty solidly established the tone they'd be taking for the rest of the show - much more dark, almost no comedy. Normally I find those sorts of adaptations pretty dour and joyless, but in this case I thought it helped make the stakes feel solid, and if anything it lined up better with the original premise of "the demon world is a truly horrifying place and its incursion into reality would be an absolute nightmarish apocalypse." I didn't mind that it felt like the stakes were real and the heroes fighting demons was really necessary.

The second episode made it pretty clear where they were going with the series adaptation. While it speeds through the intro of Goki, Kurama and Hiei, it also lets Yusuke's fight with Goki feel - again - extremely well-choreographed and tense. The choreography in this show is consistently very impressive, especially considering how often our heroes have to fight fully CGI bad guys - and this fight doesn't even have any dialogue in it, but it still makes it entirely clear what Yusuke is thinking at every point, which is very impressive, especially since he goes through an entire arc from "I don't need to figure out how to use the Spirit Gun" to "I desperately need the spirit gun to start working right the fuck now". They also handle Kurama's intro very well, making it very clear that he's cunning and kind of inscrutable but not necessarily malicious, and in the scene where Yusuke's tailing him it's pretty clear from the choreography that Kurama knows he's there and is very carefully waiting long enough for him to follow him without feeling like he's being lured, which is entirely in-character, and again a very impressive way to show characterization without any dialogue required. And of course the reveal that Kurama is in fact a Nice Boy who is trying to sacrifice himself to save his mom is real good, and letting Yusuke's past experience with seeing how his mom reacted to his death make him immediately ride or die for Kurama was a very solid bit of characterization - and adding Kuwabara to this subplot where he wasn't originally there helped balance out the characterization a little bit with an entirely justified naysayer pointing out "dude he's a demon maybe don't trust him immediately." It also helps get Kuwabara involved in the main story nice and quick, where he originally is a bit of a late arrival.

The part I was getting a little worried about at this point, and an element of the adaptation that I legitimately think is a detriment, was how they were handling Hiei. A huge part of what makes Hiei fun in the original series is that he is legitimately a huge bastard, and in his introduction is a full-blown bad guy who Yusuke very nearly dies fighting. Classic Hiei kidnapped Keiko and nearly turned her into a demon just to fuck with Yusuke. And what makes their relationship great is the team-building that happens in the Four Saint Beasts arc the adaptation is evidently skipping over, where Hiei is so baffled - and so touched - by Yusuke's completely unearned trust in him that he immediately becomes 100% ride or die for Yusuke and only Yusuke.

He's a vicious little asshole who takes himself very seriously and legitimately has the power to back up his grandstanding 90% of the time, and that's what makes him so fun to watch - those little slivers of characterization where he's goofy or baffled or vulnerable or lets himself be visibly impressed with one of his teammates, mixed with the moments where he's like "okay this has been fun but it's time to die now" and just one-shots the bad guy with another dangerous forbidden technique he picked up for shits and giggles.

So I was getting a little worried that the adaptation wasn't gonna let Hiei be, like. An actual asshole. Because what makes him fun as a character is that he is an asshole, he just also has a handful of sympathetic motivations and nice qualities that he usually doesn't own up to. And I ended up being right about that, which was a bummer, but again, the way they did it was a bit of extremely efficient streamlining. In the anime, Hiei's introduction is just him being a dick for no reason - then everyone has a team-building bonding arc with the Four Saint Beasts, and then Hiei is revealed to have a real heroic motivation hiding somewhere in there: rescuing his secret twin sister Yukina from a nasty human holding her prisoner.

So the adaptation basically just streamlined the entire rest of the show into that arc. Hiei's intro stealing the fancy knife? He's using it to get the Jagan Eye to look for Yukina. Hiei storming this compound full of humans? They're the ones holding Yukina prisoner. It's 100% sympathetic, he's just not willing to own up to that to anybody. Everything he does that's dubiously moral or kind of a dick move? It's actually fine, or he's being framed (like in the shot they perfectly remake from the anime where he kidnaps Keiko, except just kidding it's a shapeshifting bad guy framing him), or Yusuke's the one who attacks him in the first place.

And that's extremely efficient storytelling! It just makes Hiei kind of an antisocial dick and not even slightly a villain, which I think dramatically reduces how fun his character is - it just flattens him into a very standard-issue lancer archetype who refuses to express any sort of emotional or physical vulnerability to anyone, which is a fine character trope, it's just kind of more boring than the dickhead outdoor cat I was hoping for.

The same thing also happens to Genkai, who in the original series has dozens of episodes of screentime to show off how she is the best kind of mentor ever written - a dickhead mentor.

She's rude and snarky and a full-blown asshole, and she and Yusuke have a truly hilarious mentor-stydent dynamic because they're both assholes. And it's not until a good way into the Dark Tournament that we see them in a dynamic that's not just being assholes to each other - when Genkai consolidates all her power into a sporb for Yusuke to absorb, and he spends several episodes nearly dying about it. The fact that Genkai truly cares about him as her student - and the fact that he truly cares about her as his master - only comes out in this subplot, when she honestly believes she's fucked up and killed him and he goes beyond his limits to absorb the power she's given him. It's a beautiful moment of payoff after dozens of episodes of planting, and right after that happens, Genkai is killed.

So when the live-action show introduced Genkai, and after a good solid montage of training and anime-accurate fight scenes and some really good Kuwabara moments, she told Yusuke she had one final technique to give him, I said out loud "oh my god please don't speedrun this." And then they did. She gave Yusuke the sporb and he absorbed it immediately and painlessly, and then they left, and then she immediately gets killed.

My notes on that part were just

So I didn't like that part. Like Hiei, Genkai is such an effective character because her moments of vulnerability and non-assholeness are so rare, and the rest of the time she's an absolute goblin nightmare. Getting rid of that reduces her to another, much flatter trope, and killing her in the same episode she's introduced almost entirely removes the impact of the moment and just makes her another dead mentor. But again, this is episode 3 of 5. This isn't the writer's fault, this is the writers making a very hard decision on what they need to get into the plot if they're planning on speedrunning the entire Dark Tournament arc - which they are. The primary rule they seemed to use when adapting Yu Yu Hakusho is "if the heroes fought this bad guy more than once, no they didn't." So the first fight with the Toguro brothers is going to become the only fight with the Toguro brothers, and they need to speedrun the entire core plot of the Dark Tournament arc within the confines of Toguro's introduction in the Rescue Yukina arc.

And the thing is, hot take? I'm not mad about that. The Dark Tournament is an iconic moment in Shonen anime history, but like. it's a tournament arc. Like all tournament arcs, it goes on a very long time, a lot of it is extremely repetitive, and it eventually arrives at the foregone conclusion end state of "team protagonist vs team final boss". In a five-episode adaptation, you pick the smallest number of good fights with real stakes and you just use those. And that's what they do here. Kurama and Hiei both get little bottle-episode fights with their respective most plot-relevant opponents from the Dark Tournament, and they both get to show off their dangerous forbidden techniques.

And it slaps. It could've used more buildup for maximum punch, but again, five episodes. And frankly in the original they didn't get much buildup either, just "this is a thing I've been working on, hopefully I don't die about it."

And consistently, the fight choreography continues to be really good. The physicality of the actors is very solid and the way CGI attacks and opponents get worked into the choreography is so fluid it's sometimes hard to tell where the CGI ends. And considering the final boss is two full-CGI photorealistic bad guys, I think they do an incredibly good job making the fights feel real and solid.

Characterization-wise, since so much of the final episode is just a lot of fighting against a big damage sponge, there's not a ton of time for talking, but the choreography is, again, a standout. Even outside combat, the secondary characters get a lot of little moments to shine - even Damsel In Distress Du Jour Keiko gets to pull the "oh no, I, your valuable prisoner, am sick, please come into my cell within easy throttling range" trick and breaks herself and Yukina out, which slaps and makes the whole breakout feel like much more of a team effort, and it also lets Keiko and Yukina share some brief but extremely tender moments of characterization that does a lot to make them feel like well-rounded characters. And back in the main fight zone, the characters don't have much dialogue but show where they're at through how they move. Everyone is exhausted and beaten down and has already used their finishing moves, but Yusuke's in trouble, so it's time to scramble back up and tackle the bad guy. It's just such good choreo and such good acting that it makes me forgive a lot of the pacing struggles they're dealing with from boiling everything down to 5 episodes, and without dialogue - just through fight choreography - they manage to make me buy the teamwork dynamic they've thus far failed to establish due to speedrunning past all the stuff that's supposed to help them bond. This is the first part of the show that makes me believe that Hiei has any affection for the gang and any reason to fight alongside them beyond coincidence.

And they continued the trend of hitting all the major plot beats from the stuff they were speedrunning, which led to me counting down the minutes to the Kuwabara Fake-Dies To Motivate Yusuke moment.

The rest of the fight is pretty much just a shot-for-shot adaptation of the final stage of the Toguro bossfight, plus the added fun that it's the first time in the show Yusuke has actually yelled "spirit gun" out loud, which is neat. And it took every second of those five episodes, but in the closing scene they finally reached the group dynamic I was hoping for.

All things considered, given the parameters they had to work in, I think this is the best we could've possibly gotten in only five episodes. I would've probably preferred one where instead of cramming the entire dark tournament into three episodes they just left it alone and just did Rescue Yukina plus maybe the Saint Beasts, but if this is what we were getting, this was a very solid way to do it. I, at least, had an overall very good time, and have been thinking about rewatching it, which is wild since it's only been like three weeks since I watched it the first time. But yea, overall the pacing is wild but I think there was a lot of love and thought put into it, and it really shows.

#asks #not aurora #media recs

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thegreaturameshi · 1 year

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Y'know.. I think I might give being King of Demon World a chance. I'm coming back to Demon World for the next gruesome Makai Tournament! Be ready to bow down to the next Demon World ruler of 3 years cause I don't plan on losing this time!

#urameshi yusuke #yusuke urameshi #urameshi #yu yu hakusho #yusuke #yyh

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kuwabarathegreat · 11 months

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Will you be at the next Makai tournament, Kuwabara?

Of course I'm gonna be there. But I'm just gonna be there to cheer for Urameshi!

#kazuma #kazuma kuwabara #kuwabara #kuwabara kazuma #yu yu hakusho #yyh #askkazumakuwabara

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kazimakuwabara · 4 months

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Call Your Heavy-Hitter

Summary: Shizuru answers Botan and Keiko's call. (humor, friendship, silliness. 500+ words)

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Keiko and Botan looked up as someone cleared their throat above them.

Shizuru Kuwabara, with an unreadable expression, stood over Keiko and Botan, one of her eyebrows arched perfectly. She first looked at Keiko, with the entire left side of her makeup smeared upward, and a split lip. Then, she shifted to look at Botann, whose once cutely styled hair had been so mussed, her hair was about twice its size, and her dress, which had been ripped in a few places.

Shizuru withdrew the cigarette hanging out of the left side of her mouth, exhaled smoke through her nose, and sighed, “Okay… what happened?”

“Keiko had a shitty day,” Botan hurried to explain, “So we thought we’d go out.”

“Girl’s night,” Keiko sighed.

“So I took her to this new club,” Botan pointed at a bar and dance club behind her, a beefy-looking bouncer standing by the door, and glaring at Keiko and Botan who were sitting on the curb.

“And we drank,” Keiko supplied.

“Maybe, a lot,” Botan admitted. “But there were these rude girls inside-”

“They were talking about last year’s Makai tournament!”

“Yes! And they said awful things about our boys!”

“Yes! Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama!”

“Yes! They said Kurama shouldn’t have won and called him a wretch!”

“All while also saying how they each wanted to bang him!”

“And Keiko and I just couldn’t stand it anymore! So… So…�� Botan twisted her hands together, “So we smashed one of their heads with a bottle of wine.”

“And started a big bar fight!” Keiko sighed, fingering the edge of her skirt. There was a bit of blood on the hem.

“And they kicked us out!” Botan huffed, stamping her foot, even from her seated position.

“But my bag is inside and they won’t let me get it!” Keiko lamented anxiously.

“So you called me,” Shizuru guessed, her tone neutral.

“Yes,” Botan and Keiko admitted together, worriedly looking up at the older woman.

“We hoped you could…”

"Help you out?” Shizuru guessed.

“Yes!”

Shizuru sighed and flicked her cigarette to the ground. She put out the half-used stick with her heel and then rolled up her sleeves shaking her head. When her left sleeve was rolled to her elbow, she started on the right and looked at the bouncer.

The beefy bouncer flinched under Shizuru’s sudden and unexpected glare.

“You should have called me earlier!” Shizuru hissed, before smirking and stepping towards the large bouncer. She curled a finger at the demon, and with a bloodthirsty voice cooed, “You. C’mere!”

#kazi fanfic #yyh #keiko #shizuru #botan #silly

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awesomesauce2929 · 6 months

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Do you think Daishinkan has any other children besides his 18 (now 12 + Merus)? Maybe they serve the gods in other multiverse?

I'm now wondering if there are fallen angels who betrayed Zeno, the gods, their family, and their father Daishinkan? Who lost their angelic powers and became, like, demons or something. If that's the case, then Daishinkan deep down is already living a life of depression, it's his condition in life to lose his children so often. (Perhaps he's the one who strips the fallen angels of their "divinely angelic powers" as a punishmentso, and also to keep them from being erased by Zeno?)

Or perhaps there's a difference between the part where half of his children leave him for his own thoughts and selfish reasons, and the other part where his other children are wiped out by Zeno along with the 13-18 universes?

This is an interesting question and I thought it a lot, I like to know what you think of this answer as well. I apologise for the answer being long but I love this topic so much.

About the other Angels

I believe yes Daishinkan has other children, named after alcoholic drinks but with different duties. Some of the younger angels are still in training and taught by the more senior angels. Some angels are assigned to stay and maintain the angel realm (some are rulers and some are defenders in case the angel realm get attacked) I believe the angels' population are in hundreds, if not, thousands. But Cus is still the oldest out of all of them.

I like to think there are other multiverses besides this one we have, I do believe there was a god of Creation who was Zeno-sama's counterpart (because if there is destruction like at Zeno's level, there must be a Creation deity for a balance), who created more multiverses and left Daishinkan to be in charge of Zeno-sama and 18, now 12 universes. The Omni Creator would have been responible making the universes, the Kais and the dragon balls/super dragon balls and very likely Daishinkan himself. The Omni Creator resides in the other universes and I like to think some angels are there to serve the Omni Creator directly and indirectly and the other gods.

The multiverses, I like to explore with that in the future post as well the angels in those universes.

The Fallen Angels

The Angelic Law do state the Angels being neutral towards mortals and is not allowed to intervene unless they got the god's/supreme kai's permission or given an exception to do so, if they disobeyed that, they will be erased. However it doesn't state yet what happened if the angels betrays Zeno or Daishinkan.

I agree with you that they could become demons and banish to the demon world or Makai or go back to the Angel Realm in disgrace. Most of the time, they go back to the Angel Realm to be re-trained or to stay there whilst another angel takes their place. But if it was a major offense such as betrayal or made Zeno-sama angry, they go to the Makai or Demon Realm of any universes to become demon for them to learn their lesson. If they learn their lesson, Daishinkan can restore their divinity angelic powers back when he first took it from them.

My personal theory is that there is four angels in Demon Realm who is having the demon punishment in Universe 1, 5, 8 and 12 because Daishinkan has hope they can reform and be reconditioned without being erased during the tournament and the Demon Realm in those universes are tend to be better in aiding them to reform. You can think of those fallen angels as prisoners. It still pains Daishinkan when he thinks what they done but it is better than being erased which upsets the Daishinkan more.

About the Angels 13-18 and why there was a difference in their treatment compared to the fallen angels (plus an story idea I will write)

For the angels 13-18, this is going to the deeper headcanon territory, I think it's a mix of tragedy and being trapped in the crossfire of Zeno-sama's anger and their gods' desires. What happened was Universe 13 (destroyer only) ,16, 17 and 18 deities (and the angels was with them) protested against Zeno-sama's rule.

Some angels went along with the desires and some had those desires and agreed with the deities. Zeno-sama was insulted and erased the deities and those angels who was in the room with them. The attendant came after to tell the news about the mortal levels which Universe 13, 14 and 15 had the lowest mortal levels made Zeno-sama's anger worst and he ended eliminating Universe 13-18 including Universe 13-15 deities and angels.

The Story Idea

I planned to made a story about how the Angel of the 13th Universe called Toni (after Tonic Water) was in the meeting with Daishinkan at the time when the six universes was erased. Toni was shocked and heartbroken about her universes being erased and asked her father if it was planned, Daishinkan knew nothing about it. He and Toni asked Zeno-sama what happened. Zeno-sama told them everything and how the Angels 14-18 are also erased (I call them in my story, Pisco (14), Baijiu (15), Daru (16), Nalewka (17, thanks to my friend helping me to find a name for her) and Kir (18, thanks to my other friend finding a name for them). Toni tried to hold back tears and sadness over loss of her siblings. Zeno-sama saw her, "You are the angel of universe 13, I don't like Universe 13…"

And erased Toni on the spot, in front of Daishinkan. Daishinkan froze, his daughter, was no more. He had no time to comfort her or say goodbye, his obedient, kind, sometimes funny daughter… he had to hold himself together, distract Zeno-sama, told the remaining angels and mourned. He mourned for a long time and made an agreement with Zeno-sama not to erase any angels without his approval.

Thank you for the question, OP. 🥰✨

#dragon ball super #headcanon #daishinkan #the grand priest #zeno-sama #angels dbs #dbs angels #angels 13-18

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basedkikuenjoyer · 10 months

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The mood feels right, it's that time without light. Who's up for a lil late-night Togashiposting? Because there's one that has me thinking about a few concepts we've been on about. Which means we get to talk baby's first foxboy blorbo again. This was always one of my better posts that still generates interest today, but for the basic idea we talk a lot about the Akazaya as throwbacks and particularly Okiku's ties to Eiichiro Oda's own history on Rurouni Kenshin. There was another two-faced redhead in popular manga at the time, and we get Oda referencing the iconic clash with Game Master in interviews as a big moment he liked. But also just in One Piece canon it's interesting how Ryokugyu with a similar power intersects with Kiku's tale to bolster the connection. Likewise with the parallel story of the thieving fox spirit and how it intersects with Kiku's past.

For this part of our examination though, we're going to look through the lens of another meta concept we've been on about. Poking at the nature of "filler" and how much strict canon really matters? This is the finale of Kurama's last fight in the anime, something really glossed over in the manga as YuYu Hakusho tragically came to a close in the hurried Three Kings Saga. To me though, the anime at least salvages this arc into a worthy conclusion. I don't actually mind the idea of our quartet squaring off their personal arcs underneath the bigger show of the Makai Tournament. Kurama's fight with Shigure is so well done for that. One thing you have to give me, being filler or noncanonical is not an impediment to being an inspiration or an influence on someone else later.

The whole fight is a great finale for Kurama & his demonic past. We meet him distanced from it, they're reconnected in the Dark Tournament, he embraces it to answer the call in Chapter Black...then here after reconciling it he rejects the old self. Importantly though, he only wins through taking advantage of seeds planted by his old self. I love the final line to Yomi about it "I never leave anything behind." That reconciliation of past and present for a brighter future is where I really see Kiku picking up this torch. Himura Kenshin has a lot of similarities in his arc, but Kurama's with themes of reincarnation and parent/child bonds feel like the ways this gentle redhead seeped in. Of course, Kiku is still her own take on the idea. The trans aspect and cloaking it in a lady caring about her reputation is an excellent evolution.

Can't ignore the antagonist here either, this is why I was thinking this part in particular after all. A surgeon with a samurai vibe, choosing an honorable death after defeat. The way Shigure shaped the tone of this climax for foxboy's saga was giving me some big feelings. I honestly haven't rewatched the Three Kings Arc in years. The montage of core scenes though, showing us how Kurama grew into someone so willing to choose this new life, it had a big one I didn't really think about in this context:

How it all starts between he & Yusuke the MC. The story of the Forlorn Hope. That dub name is way cooler because the Funimation dub of the YuYu anime is a national treasure. But yeah...that's where this entire relationship started. It's an artifact that demands the user's life to grant a wish. An empty, unfulfilled Kurama was so casually willing to throw his life away to return a mother's love...without getting the point. Too busy turning over every possibility he hasn't realized how much he's grown. There's no way his mother would be happy with that trade because she doesn't see some legendary thieving fox demon...and if you told her she'd probably just say that explains a lot.

How does Yusuke solve it? Stepping in and sharing the burden. Very similar tone we'd see later with Usopp and the samurai. Even with the little dash of levity and that fine line between nobility and senseless self-sacrifice. Not to mention the big moment of Kiku's fall being Kin's final push to evolve and strike down Kanjuro. That's not unique to YYH but it's one of the biggest pillars of that series. But Bakura Town ends up being a lot like this in tone. The sumo match. Luffy jumps in because Kiku's putting her body on the line to amp up the crowd's panic. The two working together, Luffy stepping up and playing the hero for a moment, opens a new path. Just like the Forlorn Hope here and it letting them slide for being such good boys.

Then from there Kurama's story arc has the same structure we'll see out of Kiku later and Himura Kenshin around the same time. You've come so far by the time we meet you that we can do an arc about confronting that past. But that story can't end with going back to it, can it? No matter what it may mean, it's still so wild for me to see this connection over time. Kurama really was one of my first major anime characters I could latch onto and I've been a One Piece fan for so long. Just can't believe the cutesy waitress we met early Wano had all this in store.

#yu yu hakusho #one piece #eiichiro oda #yoshihiro togashi #late night togashiposting #okiku #kurama

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brickme · 5 months

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YYH live-action

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I'm not being sarcastic when I say I believe they tried.

I don't mind them changing the structure of the story. The early parts of the YYH manga are all over the place and it's probably for the best to streamline it, and they didn't even do a half bad job of it. Tying the "bugs from makai are possessing humans and making them violent" plot point from the Four Beasts arc to Sakyo's plan to open a gate to Makai works quite organically, and having Hiei and Kurama join Yusuke and Kuwabara to rescue Yukina and defeat Tarukane/Sakyo is also a good way to be more economical with the story progression (I don't much like the Four Beasts arc anyway, so). I'm not even mad that they cut away the Dark Tournament, and having Hiei and Kurama's true powers be revealed to the audience when they battle Karasu and Bui (rather than Genpu and Seiryu) is structurally sound. I've read YYH more times than I can count, I know its structure very well, and I believe they did a good job of streamlining it while not making things up from whole cloth to replace what was already there in the manga.

Having said that, they failed in one major, unforgiving way: by streamlining and restructuring the story in the way they did, the theme and emotional impact of the entire first half of YYH was lost. And the thing is, again I think they tried? I think the people making this series both know and appreciate what YYH is about -- if not, they would not have bothered to include Genkai's speech about aging, the desire for power, and the human condition nearly verbatim from the manga! Her words basically spell out the core theme of the Dark Tournament arc, they're what elevate the series above a run-off-the-mill action series, and the emotional impact of Genkai's death and Toguro's ultimate fate are functions of this theme.

In order to appreciate this, we need to understand that the clash between Genkai and Toguro is about their deeply-held philosophies. When Genkai gives the Reikogyoku to Yusuke in order to give him a chance to defeat Toguro, we need to understand, thematically, that she is passing on her strength to Yusuke because she believes this is the point of being human. When Toguro derides Genkai for growing old and weak, we need to understand that he is deriding what he himself rejected, and that this is his weakness -- that he ran away from what it means to be human.

We can't truly understand that when Genkai gives Yusuke the Reikogyoku 30 min after meeting him??? We can't understand that when she dies 15 min later????!?!??! We barely know this woman! How are we to understand, truly and emotionally, the gravitas of her words and actions?! We haven't seen the connection between her and Yusuke, or the connection between her and Toguro! It's emotionally empty and we don't feel the underlying theme of what is happening at all!

And again, I think they really, really tried to give Toguro's words and actions in the last episode gravitas, because they do know what is happening here on a thematic level and they really tried to stick to his motivations from the manga and let us feel its impact. But ugh sorry I just kind of zoned out, man. Toguro does not work when you don't explore Genkai fully.

They tried. I genuinely believe they tried. But they failed. Everything else I could say about the series is inconsequential.

...But I care more than is healthy about YYH, so I'll say stuff anyway:

The first episode was absolutely fantastic as far as I'm concerned. I cried! The emotional resonance was absolutely there, and I was just so happy I was seeing Yusuke and Kuwabara and his lackeys and Atsuko and Botan and Koenma on screen again :') The casting was fantastic, and I especially looooooved that they cast Okubo, Kirishima, and Sawamura to match PERFECTLY with the manga. And asshole Iwamoto was there, being a supreme asshole! Yusuke smoked! The setting was very much working class! Again, it makes me think they care about the source material and they do get it. If only they'd pulled off the rest of the series as well...

Kurama was good too. It helps I've grown to like the actor since he was announced for Kurama, and he's a very good actor, but I think they really pulled off his look, which I was reeeeally worried about. It's brief, but at the hospital visiting his mother, we get to see how Kurama actually looks when he passes himself off as a human: hair tied back, wearing what could actually pass as a HS uniform. His ludicrous red costume was clearly hinted to be his mashozoku (i.e. created by his yoki) just like his Yoko Kurama outfit is in canon. It was clever and I liked it. What's missing from him is the playful side to his personality, but maybe it'll come. The Yoko look and the Karasu fight was pretty good too. I mean no one can be a perfect Yoko Kurama in live action, that's an impossibility, but it was fine.

Hiei was fine? I'm not a Hiei fan but I do think it's a shame they skipped him being an asshole and characterized him as "actually just looking for his sister, not a bad guy" from the start. I also wanted to see him melt Bui's ax like chocolate. Of the main four he was by and large the weakest. And I guess no Shigure in future seasons, woe.

Koenma was pretty good, Botan was good. In the very first scene he's in, Koenma made a reference to "we haven't had a reikai tantei since the last one left but..." which was nice. Along with the post-credits scene, made me hopeful for a Sensui arc? (Although if they do that in five episodes too it'll fail in the exact same way this season fails, so I dunno if I want them to try.) They very much get that Koenma is kind of an ass, haha, which I appreciate.

Best casting and realization of the manga character, though, was Tokuro (elder) for me. Great unhinged creeper! Too bad Toguro (younger) getting rid of him wasn't as impactful as in the manga, because we didn't get to see the two hang out a lot and the show didn't develop Genkai and Genkai/Toguro enough, AS I KEEP COMPLAINING ABOUT

#yu yu hakusho #text post

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taragreene14 · 2 months

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Niche dream fangame I wish existed: Yu Yu Hakusho dating sim VN set during the second Makai Tournament

(I know it'd probably never happen but I can dream)

#tara says stuff #yu yu hakusho

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yyh4ever · 1 year

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The Boss and Subordinates' Incognito Strange Journey

"Yu Yu Hakusho 100% Maji Battle" Koenma, Botan and Jorge Event

This event was first held on April 9, 2021. It tells how Koenma, Botan and Jorge Saotome ended up disguising themselves to attend the Demon World Tournament.

Just have in mind that this only happens in the anime. In the manga, they don't attend the Makai Tournament, and Koenma disguised as Tuxedo Mask wasn't Togashi's homage to his wife Naoko Takeuchi. Togashi stated in interviews he had nothing to do with the anime. Naoko also said in Young You magazine that they first met and started dating in 1997, and that Togashi told her he hadn't read or watched Sailor Moon. The Yu Yu Hakusho anime ended in January 1995.

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"The Boss and Subordinates' Incognito Strange Journey"

Botan: Oh, what are you doing, Koenma-sama?

Koenma: *Gulp*

Botan: Top hat and sunglasses?

Jorge: And also a bow tie, and a fine coat!

Botan and Jorge: SUS-PI-CIOUS!

Koenma: No-nothi-, it's nothing!

Botan: Come on, you can't pull the wool over my eyes!

Jorge: That's right! ...You're up to something fun, aren't you?

Koenma: *GULP* *GULP* !

Botan/Jorge: KO-EN-MA-SA-MA!

Koenma: It can't be helped. Not a word to anyone about it!

[Koenma tells Botan and Jorge what he is up to...]

Botan: Ma-, MAKAI TOURNAMENT!?

Koenma: Hey, Botan! You're talking too loud!

Botan: So-, I'm sorry...

Botan: But, isn't it dangerous for Koemma-sama to go alone to the tournament that will decide the number one youkai of the Demon World?

Jorge: That's right. Ah, if it's just a matter of disguising yourself, we can also.......

Botan and Jorge: Ta-da!!

Koenma: Jeez. I'm not going out there to have fun. I'm going to find out who is going to unify the Demon World!

Jorge: I understand, you can't miss such a fun event, right?

Botan: It's been a while since the last time we've met Yusuke and the others, hasn't it? I wonder if it's like the Dark Tournament.

Jorge: That means food stalls, presenters, and revelry! I could also become a commentator...

T/N: In the anime, Jorge and Koenma were always eating during the Dark Tournament. There's also a Maji Battle Event called "The Misfortune of Jorge Saotome", where he goes to the concession stand to buy grilled squid to Koenma. He also helped Koto with some comments lol. In the end, he was the narrator of the anime!

Koenma: Hey, Jorge! If you get carried away, we'll leave you behind!

(Koenma leaves)

Botan: Ho-Ho-Ho. After you!

(Botan also leaves)

Jorge: Errr! That was coldhearted! Wai-, wait for me!

-THE END-

Botan's "hohoho" is too cute!

If there's one thing that I love in the anime, is the original character Jorge Saotome. His interactions with Koenma are the best!

#Yu Yu Hakusho 100% Maji Battle #The Boss and Subordinates' Incognito Strange Journey #上司と部下のお忍び珍道中 #Botan #Jorge #Jorge Saotome #Koenma #Yusuke #Makai Tournament #Tuxedo Mask #Youtube

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tv-writes-ff · 3 months

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How would you see Yusuke and Koto first gaining interest in one another?

thank you so much for the ask!

both in canon and in my fic, i don't see either of them gaining any kind of interest until after the anime is finished.

in my fic, it happens very gradually because they keep getting thrown together. yusuke asks koto to announce the makai tournament, koto takes trips to the human world where they run into each other, there's royal type events hosted by enki where they keep meeting. all those little moments lead to them becoming friends, and i think they'd realize that their personalities really do complement each other. they're both loud and like a good fight, but neither one is really truly bloodthirsty. koto is actually a good listener and knows the right questions to ask to get yusuke to open up, and she also knows when to keep quiet to give yusuke time with his thoughts. yusuke slowly realizes that there's more to koto than just the loud announcer girl cheering for blood. she likes order, she's smart, and she's a really good listener who also knows exactly when he needs a distraction. so i think it would be a slow build towards friendship and then another slow build towards any kind of romance. acquaintance becomes friend becomes best friend becomes possible crush becomes soulmate.

so yeah, gaining interest would be a very gradual thing. that's okay though, they've got time.

#tv talks #ask answered #yu yu hakusho #yusuke urameshi #koto #thank you for the ask!#i also think everyone else would ship them #while they're still like #with that idiot?#it takes them time but they'll get there

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yoko-kurama-blog · 1 year

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Are you going to participate in the next Makai tournament, Yoko?

"I'm not completely sure, but I might. Depends on how old the kids are by the time the next tournament will be held. Though I am very sure that crowd would go wild upon seeing me in the ring."

#yu yu hakusho #yyhask #yyh #yoko kurama #youko kurama #yokoyyh #askyokokurama #yu yu hakusho ask

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dawnblazers · 3 months

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@thuganomxcs

Things had calmed down after the events of the Makai Tournament. Kurama's, no, now Shuichi's life had fallen back into the mundane affairs of the human world and frankly, he was fine with that. After all, his family was safe and the world wasn't ending, forever they would be silent heroes.

Years seem to pass by in a blink. Shuichi had finished high school and was accepted into a very good college aboard. After four years there he returned to Japan now in his early twenties. It felt nice to be home. It was a day or two after his return that he saw the familiar black hair and Shuichi smiled.

"Ah, Yusuke! It's been a while." he greeted. Shuichi looked like he barely aged but his hair was longer.

#thuganomxcs #kurama #i love post series stuff so i hope its ok

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adiabolikpastel · 6 months

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Is it okay if I ask you for more information about the elite school you created for your AU?

I'm curious to know how the students live together, or if there are any special events or academic competitions. Can you imagine a tournament where the best representatives of each demon race face off?

The Wolves and Eagles would demonstrate their brute strength and agility and the Vampires and Víboras would demonstrate their intelligence and skill with magic.

Sorry if this is weird, I just love your ideas and always want to know more of the AU you've created for DL. :')

ahh~ stop Anon, you are too sweet. I am so glad that you find the world interesting! I work hard on it, and with ask like this one, it gives me the chance to add more to it - so thank you so much!

Let's see...

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How the Students live together

There are a couple of different ways a student can board, again think of this much like Ouran Academy (Ouran High School Host Club). As a parent you have the option to allow your child to stay on campus, buy a housing unit for them, or have the commute each day.

Students who live on campus have dorms which are divided by age and class - so say you are a Primary Student in class 1-A, you would only be able to room with any other student in classes 1-A through 1-E. Similar if you were in class 2-A, you could only have a dorm mate that was in another similar class 2-A through 2-E.

Dorms are located closer to the school's main campuses, corresponding with the age group within them. Each dorm building is slightly different when it comes to being co-ed, while no room can have different sexes in the same room, the building itself may or may not. The size of rooms also vary, but each one is still luxurious. Singles are more like studio apartments, and there can be as many as four occupants in the larger rooms.

Students who decide to have their own housing have just that, their own housing it is just located on the schools campus. As we talked about before, similar to Mahora Academy (Negima! Magister Negi Magi), the school's campus is large enough to be considered a city. While staff members and those who work in the local businesses live around, there are designated housing units that are for student use. These are on a rent basis, and are restricted to the college level students.

Then of course anyone is able to return home each day if they so wish, and come back in the morning. Students who live in the dorms are encouraged to go home on the days they have off of school, so that deep cleaning can be done to the dorms each week. Housing students are free to come and go as they wish, and have cleaning services on call if they need.

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Any Special Events or Academic Competitions

So this school does have a ranking system for their students, like a lot of other anime material out there. Think of any Isekai or second life anime where there is a ranking system based off your power, and you are given a crest or special something based on that - that kind of thing exist here.

If you think about Fumizuki Academy (Baka and Test) where your class letter reflects your rank, that happens in this Academy too - however, no one is given terrible classrooms like in Fumizuki. So, if you are powerful you are in the A classes, while the weaker ones are in E. Those ranking can change throughout the year depending on your performance - where there are quarterly exams.

I have also mentioned in a previous ask that the school does not have a strict advancement policy - meaning you could be a 'high school' student and have dropped out of math back in primary school. I searched my blog for the post that explained it - but sadly cannot find it to link, I apologize. If you want me to go into details on this I can.

As far as events go - like sports and cultural days - I'd like to say yes. I don't want it to be so bland that it's like any other anime that has those kinds of things, since this is the Makai not human world Japan. Off the top of my though I would say they would be similar.

If you went to school in America you might know something like 'Around the World Day' where each classroom would talk about a different country and you could go around the school and learn about them - this being in Elementary. I like to think that that younger kids have this kind of event, but instead of by class the school have a specific staff member that is that race's advisor or representative for the students. They help organize the students and create displays or activities for others to learn about one another. After all as the Demon World's elite future, they must know about one another.

There is also the quarterly exams in each grade level, to determine your class rankings. They are done on the power level only - not academic, since that is handled separate. Academics are done bi-yearly, but they are not done on a large public scale. While there is no school mandated or authorized competition of races - it is common among the students to create such stakes.

Venturing into spoiler-ish areas for the Tormented Reverie Another Daydream story - since the Vampires are the current Demon King race (as Shu sits as the demon king), they are seen as the top in terms of power. More is expected of the Bat clan, and those that come from it. That being said however, the big four kingdoms still reign over any other demons - those being Bat, Wolf, Snake (Vibora) & Eagle (Adler).

#ask mun #ask answered #Tormented Reverie Another Daydream #world building #i have to name this school at some point

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diinferi · 6 months

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REIBAI 4

YOU TRY TO GO BACK TO NORMAL. You go to school and avoid your parents, but everything’s so boring after surviving the Dark Tournament that you make a habit of tracking down Hiei and getting into fights. The boredom doesn’t last long and soon you’re embroiled in the mystery of the tunnel being dug into the Makai.

YOUR POWERS ARE GETTING STRONGER. You knew that already. It’s why you trained them in the first place, but the longer it takes to find the ones responsible the stronger your powers get. There’s only a week until the barrier between Makai and Ningenkai is breached and you finally have a lead. Yūsuke’s predecessor as a Spirit Detective is behind this and you won’t let him win.

YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Everyone has barely started hunting when Sensui attacks and you find out there’s two days left before the breach. Fighting Sensui is overwhelming and you can barely keep up. You’re lead to the cave where the beach is being orchestrated. Gamemaster is defeated and soon after so is the Elder Toguro Brother. The only ones left are Sensui and Itsuki.

YOU’RE ANGRY. Itsuki traps everyone in a separate dimension but Yūsuke, leaving him to fight Sensui and his other personalities alone. You can’t escape until Kawabara gains a new ability to cut through dimensions.

YOU’RE TOO LATE. Yūsuke is dead and Sensui has escaped to Makai. You follow him along with the others. Yūsuke deserves revenge and the four of you engage Sensui in battle. Then, you feel an unexpected presence. Changed but there. Yūsuke lives.

YOU WATCH. Yūsuke fights, faring better now that he’s awakened his Yōkai blood. The fight is a little more even when suddenly Yūsuke changes. He wins, but it’s a bitter pill to swallow when he wasn’t in control of himself. They’ve won, but the breach doesn’t close.

YOU THINK IT’S OVER. It’s not. The Three Kings of Makai are on the move. Raizen, Yūsuke’s ancestor, is dying and wants Yūsuke to be his successor. Mukuro invites Hiei and Yomi blackmails Kurama. You and Kuwabara are left in Ningenkai. You train with Genkai, moving in with her after your parents decide to move with your brother further south. When Kurama comes looking for allies you accept. It’s during a training session that you awaken something you never expected. Seikōki. Not even Genaki has it, only Sensui did. You suspect it’s because of your status as a Jumper. Not long after, Raizen dies and Makai is on the brink of war. Yūsuke has a plan. A tournament.

YOU JOIN. You have no interest in ruling, but you’ll be damned if you let your friends fight without you. You lose to Yūsuke and you just laugh. He’s come a long way from barely defeating those first few Yōkai to going toe-to-toe with S-Class Yōkai. After the tournament is over, you continue working for Reikai part-time until you graduate from high school and transition to full-time. You stay with them through the barrier coming down and a regime change. The years pass and everything is good until you start coughing up blood. It’s an illness that no one can cure, the same as what happened to Sensui. Your body can’t handle the strain of the Seikōki and it’s breaking down. Eventually, you’re bedridden as your friends work to find a cure that doesn’t exist. Kurama comes to you, a cup of steaming tea in hand and a resolved look in his eye. You can barely hold the cup, but you drink the whole thing. With one last smile, you let the drugged-laced tea put you to sleep and you don’t wake up again.

#jumpchain #writeblr #creative writing #cyoa #yu yu hakusho #yyh oc #yyh fic #text #file: reibai

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